Decolonization as Dissent, Dissent as Decolonization

Abstract This special section places dissent at the center of decolonization to better understand the limitations of the postcolonial state and anti-colonial politics; to explore both continuities and ruptures in forms of mobilization and knowledge production during the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial; and ultimately to understand how decolonization as first and foremost a claim for political independence evolved into decolonization as a means of producing social, political, and economic change and justice within and across state boundaries.